Get your dancing shoes on
Here’s a fab 60s documentary about how to dance the ska. We will be testing you at our next gig.
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News and blog | The Skamonics - London ska band - Part 16
Just over a week to go to our Brixton gig
Don’t forget we are playing on Sunday, February 12th, Upstairs at the Ritzy, in Brixton.
Here’s a link to the Ritzy website.
And, of course, there’s a Facebook event here.
GIG: Upstairs at the Ritzy February 12th
The headline says it all.
We have a new gig upstairs at the Ritzy on Sunday February 12th.
Here’s a link to the Facebook event, so you can invite your friends.
VIDEO: fan phone footage from our latest gig
Thanks to one of our fans for passing on some camera phone footage from our recent gig at Round Midnight.
It’s not the highest quality of course, but we kind of like it. Neither are the whole song, but there’s a good chunk of each.
Here’s 99 Red Balloons
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and some of Misirlou
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Some more dodgy live recordings
Here are a couple more live recordings from the last wedding gig we played.
Once again they come with a warning. They are lo-fi and unbalanced as the recorder was off to one side of the stage. We’ve done some surgery to reduce the bass (as the bass amp was near the recorder), but it’s impossible to bring up the guitar. which was the other side of the stage.
Monkey Man – live
Night Boat to Cairo – live
new video for My Boy Lollipop
We’ve had some fun mashing up a 1946 film called ‘School Prom’ that’s out of copyright with our latest demo recording. It’s on YouTube. But it’s also here.
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Some dodgy live recordings
Here are a couple of tracks we played at the recent wedding gig in Rotherhithe.
They were recorded from one side of the stage, so the sound is very unbalanced. It is easy to tell the guitar was on the other side of the stage, and the bass on the same side as the recorder.
There is also a lot of audience noise (though they seem prertty happy).
But we hope they show that we can play this stuff live too.
Guns of Navarone
Latine Goes Ska
Great gig at Round Midnight
We had a great gig on Friday night at Round Midnight. We could tell that we we’re doing well when people walking past heard the music, turned round, came in and started dancing.
We didn’t take a camera this time or record anything, but this is what we played:
| Chinatown |
| Guns Of Navarone |
| Latin Goes Ska |
| Hava Nagila |
| Mood For Love |
| You’re Wondering Now |
| Eastern Standard Time |
| Alley Cat Ska |
| Man In The Street |
| Can’t Get You Out of my Head |
| Enola Gay |
| Let’s Work Together |
| Second Set |
| James Bond |
| Dr Who |
| Misirlou |
| Skaravan |
| 99 Red Balloons |
| Tainted Love (Vocal) |
| Rudy A Message To You |
| My Boy Lollipop |
| Monkey Man |
| Night Boat To Cairo |
| Encore |
| Gangsters (Vocal) |
Looking forward to our Friday gig
We’re playing at Round Midnight on Friday – and they have a page here promoting the gig.
We have a rhythm section rehearsal tonight, and will be seeing if we can knock up a version of Let’s Work Together, given that our singer Veronica is featured on the new single, so we can do it on Friday.
Help our singer make the charts!
We’re very proud that our singer, Veronica, is part of this project celebrating the work that public service workers do. There’s a campaign to get this in the charts this week and you can find out more about it, and where to buy it here.
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